Bacchus1979 wrote:hit my goal of 12, tough grind on the last rep, but just managed to get my chest to the bar. Gonna start working on the overhand pull-up this month (redundant?)

Onward and upward!

nice one. chest to bar is challenging. i'm fascinated by the variation in the ranges of movement people think makes a pullup.
overhand is different and I think not redundant. there's less bicep work, and biceps are really useful.

hit my goal of 12, tough grind on the last rep, but just managed to get my chest to the bar. Gonna start working on the overhand pull-up this month (redundant?)

Onward and upward!

nice one. chest to bar is challenging. i'm fascinated by the variation in the ranges of movement people think makes a pullup.
overhand is different and I think not redundant. there's less bicep work, and biceps are really useful.

I agree - but funny you should mention that, because I did some pull-ups after doing my chin test, and I couldn't get my chest to the bar with the overhand grip, I got my head and neck well clear of the bar, but couldn't get my chest to touch the bar. I don't know if it was an angle issue, or ROM because of my shoulders are jacked up from 15 odd years of rugby, but Ill keep playing with it :)

Going to have to bail out of the challenge, due to sickness i've had two weeks off from training in Feb. Two sessions of pullups, with one of them being a gentle easer, isn't going to do anything to me numbers. Due to a number of niggling injuries i haven't been able to train pullups with any intensity or frequency for 8 months or so. I used to feel like a superhero on the pullup bar, now i feel like an obese old woman. Time address that i feel.

PK, sorry about the injuries. You're making big progress in several lifts, though, so don't feel too bad about it.
Travis, the challenge is to make a 10% improvement, so if you went from 13 to 14, well, 1.3 rounds to 1, so you met the challenge.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.--Francis Chan

Yes, with the usual reservation about the completion of the last one, but since that was true for the 9th and now it's on the 10th, I consider the job done, albeit I failed the deadline for the challange.